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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're in Key/ASFS, so we'd be going to the new school (walking! yay!), but I don't think the new school will actually be done in time (will it? youngest is in 3rd).[/quote]

Have you studied the sixth slide where they draw a circle around HB Woodlawn as a potential new MS site? (The slide doesn't have a title - you have to scroll down to the sixth one).

Under that scenario, they seem to be keeping Rosslyn/Courthouse kids at Williamsburg - both areas are the same color pink. That would imply that Rosslyn/Courthouse kids would be bused past the HBW location (which would be a closer middle school for this group and is also on the 3A/3Y bus route for after hours activities).

They would be taken another 2 or miles onto Williamsburg MS, which is difficult to reach with public transportation for after hours activities like PTA meetings/evening concerts etc

It seems odd to create a neighborhood school  for some, and to bus another group over 5 miles to the county's border with McLean. It's probably more than 5 miles given that school buses don't take a direct route.[/quote]

I predict this will be the one that one that wins out.  There is some influence enforcing that that section of Rosslyn goes to Williamsburg.  Why would they even consider keeping that weird zoning anomaly unless there is a powerful champion for it.  H-B woodlawn being moved is a dangerous one; it's a crown jewel program which they don't want to disrupt, but I suspect the alumni and parents don't have the clout of whomever is pushing Rosslyn to Williamsburg.

So we'll see a new middle school at the H-B Woodlawn site, H-B woodlawn would move to wilson, and Rosslyn would continue to bus to Williamsburg.  But under that scenerio, what is the timeline for the new middle school? Build Wilson Sep 2018 opens as new H-B Woodlawn.  *Then* start renovation, demolition of H-B woodlawn to generate a sufficiently large middle school to make all this effort worthwhile? So would we be looking at 3 more years until middle school opens?[/quote]

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